Vacation in Kentucky

As mentioned in the last blog, we spent a week being with all of our family and enjoyed every minute of it. We haven't ALL been together since last November, so it was especially nice to be a complete family again. It's getting harder and harder to find a time and place when everyone can meet and spend some time together. Distance, school, job requirements, and a score of other things to juggle are going to make it even more difficult in the future. But that's life! We are all changing, growing, and expanding our lives in many ways. What counts most is knowing that each person is deeply connected to God and growing spiritually. So, when we do get to be together, we will laugh a lot, eat too much, thank God even more, and appreciate the blessings of being a loving family and having soooo many wonderful memories to share. It was really tough to pick the two pictures above from the one hundred and fifty plus that we took of our family vacation, but there's only so many that can be placed in a blog. And this is the only "family" group picture we took - just before Jonathan and Holly had to leave. It was so wonderful to see them since they had to jump through so many different hoops to just get off work for part of the week. Every night Donna and I ask God to take care of Pat, Deborah, Joshua, and Caleb, and Chad, Elizabeth, Carter, and Ashlyn, and Jonathan and Holly. And we have already added Curtis Michael. God answers prayer and the vacation together was truly icing on the cake. God is good!